Relative newcomer Gabrielle Walsh has been cast in the role of Sarah, who comes to Mystic Falls in the season premiere with “spunk, street smarts and a shady agenda,” our sister site Deadline reports.

This marks Walsh’s first television appearance as a character; she previously appeared as herself in a 2014 episode of the syndicated series Made in Hollywood. Walsh also co-starred in Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, so at least she’s no stranger to the supernatural.

The Vampire Diaries‘ sixth season premieres Oct. 2 at 8/7c on The CW.

Any theories about how Sarah might fix into the show’s Season 6 equation? Drop a comment with your thoughts on Walsh’s casting below.

So the show is still going to keep throwing new characters at us instead of fixing the repetitive story problems with the old ones? Let’s hope she’s a lot more interesting than most of last season’s dull newbies.

Lol, Vampire Diaries hasnt fixed one thing in its entire series. It only makes mistakes. Never has the show gotten better than a episode or season before it, never has a character gotten more likable or more fun to watch, never has the shown done anything but go down in quality since season 1. Face the facts, this show is a circle jerk of a love triangle that is going no where cause the creator/writers/showrunner know to not take risks, to keep this cash cow going by continuing with the love triangle drama and sex scenes/shirtless scenes of the two brothers and Elena. What a joke.

What about season five was better than season four? Absolutely nothing. Last season was the television embodiment of crap. Once The Originals left the show fell to sh*t because they were the last interesting characters the show had.

You ever notice how all most of you do is complain? Seriously it is the Vampire Diaries, you can’t expect quality all the time and every darn show adds new characters each season even if they don’t stick around.

@Cas Have YOU ever notice that WE have an opinion?! Do you think that EVERY viewer that watch a show see a new character whether he/she is in the main cast and/or recurring KNOWS THAT?! So don’t talk down on people just because THEY have a opinion because we have them and you can’t run from them! That’s the bottom line because I said so! (In Roman Reigns voice) BELIEVE THAT! ( Roman Reigns theme plays)

Who are they trying to kid? New character? Let’s call her what she is, canon fodder and open the death pool. I give it three episodea before she’s killed off for DRAMA!? and revealed to be ‘evil’ because her perfectly reasonable goal is ‘wrong’ in spite of lore and that persons supposed motivationso/experience saying otherwise.

This new character doesn’t even matter. It’s not like she’ll be alive long enough for us to care. They have to bring on new characters to kill, because they are running out of major characters to kill.

This show can’t fix itself with new characters. They need to start giving storylines to its existing beloved characters (are they still?), and stop with trying to garner cheap drama moments with faux death moments.